sierrawine
New Member
I've really enjoyed the posts here and taken so much from them. We're brand new cabin-cruiser owners and we've learned so much here already! I thought I'd share our first solved problem with our new Sundancer 250.
After our first outing we had a steering issue - my husband thought it wasn't quite right, too hard to turn, etc. So we searched and searched for issues others have had and it seemed to most likely be the pump. So he changed that. Nope - not the issue. Next he changed the actuator since it showed some definite signs of wear and it seemed logical, given our problem and the number of posts regarding steering (which seemed few, with the pump, the actuator and then the cable being the issue, in that order). No deal on the actuator. Finally we progressed to the steering calbe, which many posts ensured us was NOT EVER a problem. Still, a few others said, "Don't write it off" and we even found a post by someone who'd done all of the things we'd done (but he'd done TWO pumps!) and it turned out to be the steering cable. So, finally, we tried the steering cable and THAT WAS IT!
So just another shout out to the steering cable for those searching. It turned out to be the actual problem and that seems pretty rare but obviously a possibility!
After our first outing we had a steering issue - my husband thought it wasn't quite right, too hard to turn, etc. So we searched and searched for issues others have had and it seemed to most likely be the pump. So he changed that. Nope - not the issue. Next he changed the actuator since it showed some definite signs of wear and it seemed logical, given our problem and the number of posts regarding steering (which seemed few, with the pump, the actuator and then the cable being the issue, in that order). No deal on the actuator. Finally we progressed to the steering calbe, which many posts ensured us was NOT EVER a problem. Still, a few others said, "Don't write it off" and we even found a post by someone who'd done all of the things we'd done (but he'd done TWO pumps!) and it turned out to be the steering cable. So, finally, we tried the steering cable and THAT WAS IT!
So just another shout out to the steering cable for those searching. It turned out to be the actual problem and that seems pretty rare but obviously a possibility!